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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    If worst came to worst, Svetlana would either talk Ilya - and Jane - through humanitarian visa applications, or find them someone who could. That would involve making many things public that neither Ilya nor Jane would want public. She would marry Ilya before it came to that, for the sake of Jane and whatever he was protecting. If Jane wasn't Russian - if he was Indonesian or Saudi or even another athlete - she would still do whatever they needed. The fact of the matter was that Ilya Rozanov was the only man she could actually imagine marrying; but this was really the only scenario in which she could imagine marrying him.

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    11 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 26

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    She took Ilya’s hand back then and he took hers and they never let go. Not in the graveyard while he stared stone faced into a place she couldn’t see, not in the alley after a loss when his breath beat against her neck in a panic he wouldn’t let himself show any other way, not when he came to school with bruises that weren’t from a game, not when he folded into a pile in a corner for a moment to shudder himself back into the person everyone else wanted him to be.

    Svetlana, who loves with her entire heart but maybe not the way others do. A combination of character study on Svetlana and Ilya's friendship over the years and on my headcanon that she's aromantic.

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    26 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 92

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    I couldn't stop thinking about the stuff that's offscreen or off the page, so here is an unsexy vignette about Ilya Rozanov's rookie season and some people doing some work on themselves.

    also yeah i know enough about hockey to know there's no way a teenaged rookie from a foreign country would have been left to get his own apartment in his first season. no way, he was in somebody's house.
    so this is whose house he was in, and what he did there.

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    25 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    The ache in his chest that is Shane Hollander only blossoms, the way the colors splay across his chest or arms or legs after a good hit, a clean hit, something he chose to feel the pain of.

    He didn't choose this.

    Extra scenes from episode 5 (and a tiny bit from episode 6). How did Ilya get hurt during the playoffs?

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    07 Jan 2026

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    "You are Hunter's boyfriend," the guy says, looming. He's holding a glass of vodka that probably costs more than what Kip earns in a day.

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    01 Jan 2026